India traded throughout the Indian Ocean Basin, but once _________ began to control the area, both Asian and Arab merchants were forced to pay protection
money so their cargo would not be seized.
Portugal
<span>The correct answer is B. War of Austrian Succession. This war happened around a hundred years after the Thirty Years' World War and revolved around crowning the next king/queen of the Habsburg Monarchy. It did however include most of the big forces in Europe, just like the Thirty Year's War. It ended with Maria Theresa being the Queen and her husband the Holy Roman Emperor.</span>
From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain. Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution.
